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Regardless of spending if they can't offer you a basic lte connection that is good enough for most things they are not spending enough.

 

 

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Outside of Metro they also have better coverage definitely better speeds.

 

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Metro area. I have had both and that statement is definitely true. Especially when is malls and structures in general.

 

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Tmo not much advantage over Sprint here . They dont have low band. they use aws for 3g and lte right? more or less like Sprint

Better coverage and lte speeds that are never slow. Other then that they are very similar.

 

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Yup. I'm tmobile. Been sprint in the past.

 

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Well. Mr. Son needs to start using Gilat satellites to help Sprint specially here.. Another way could be Google making a deal with local operators open mobile and claro, i think both.We need in building coverage and in the center of the island...

When pigs fly..

 

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Just spent 10 days in PR. Drove around the entire Island. Only in the SJ metro and major roads is Sprint halfway descent. Overall, it was a poor experience. Many dead and roaming areas in Humacao, Isabela and Rincon. Long way to go.

Exactly!

 

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July 4th in two beach towns and only 5x5 b25. Aguadilla beaches were packed today. On regular days seeing 3 Mbps avg. It's been declining since 50% off promo.

 

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You also have lots of MVNO traffic on the sprint network.

 

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Was at mall of San Juan yesterday and Sprint was barely usable. Lots of roaming especially in stores. Sprint and T Mobile are only carriers out of 5 in PR with no low band. Outside service was good. Plaza had some issues as well. B26 is really needed here.

 

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Give the use of cement in Puerto Rico we definitely need lower bands. I think t-mobile does have lower spectrum from the failed ATT deal.

 

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I'm pretty sure Sprint opted for microwave for the island since the challenging terrain makes it hard to deploy fiber to each tower. My guess is that they have one fat pipe going to the island that feeds most of the towers on it. They probably need to scale it up though to accommodate the growing data needs of pretty much everybody.

 

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The same main fiber lines that feed Puerto Rico must then go on to st. Thomas and the islands I would assume.

 

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Does St. Thomas have the larger pipes coming in to acomódate more speed? Given the low number of towers seems like upgrading makes huge sense.

 

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I haven't left because of a couple of reasons... customer service being one of them.... and having hears of the recent to be upgrades im willing to hold up a little bit more..... but sometimes its really frustrating...

 

Just enhance whatever sites they have and/or do the freaking corresponding upgrades.....

Sticking with good Customer service is worth it even if the service they offer you is bad?

 

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Current speeds at Mayagüez

 

I cant upload the screenshot but

 

Download is at 0.11 Mbps

Upload is at 0.18 Mbps

This is exactly why I left sprint. Those speeds are unacceptable if you have a descent signal.

 

Steven

 

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Well i will keep saying that important cities like arecibo, mayaguez and ponce should have lte plus not just the metropolitan area. i i know its a budget thing but they need to reconsider...!

What average speed tests are you getting? What you want is a base minimum speed. What tech is used to accomplish that in a given area it kind of irrelevant.

 

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So did they complete this deployment?

 

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Finally.. This is excellent. I'm kind of in love with t-mobile at this point but it's nice to see sprint become competitive.

 

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So sprint is deploying frequency they controlled in Puerto Rico but were not using?

 

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Got this on tmobile around los filtros the other day.

 

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I have a question. Maybe it's silly but I truly don't understand how T-Mobile started last upgrading and adding their LTE and it currently have more LTE sites and much better speed and coverage and Sprint is taking so long? Their map used to be terrible as far as coverage and they have been able to improve it a lot faster than Sprint.

 

Also, does anyone know what is that LTE plus they just announced? They haven't fully deployed Spark and they are announcing a new LTE. We keep hearing promises of upgrading the towers and honestly, it is getting old. Thanks for the info.

I wish we had a good solid map showing the location of t-mobile Towers like we have for Sprint. I'm on T-mobile and I get speeds that are much better than what I saw with sprint even after the LTE upgrade.

 

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Jaja. I know Frisi...

 

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Its about the money. Everybody already got paid off so the incentive to now enforce the law is very small. Especially since I assume companies like att will be opposed to let any of their competitors get any spectrum they do not want to fight for too.

 

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At this point you might as well wait until Spark is widely deployed across the island.

So deployment already started? I'm not sure higher speeds is what sprint really needed. Their lte was not bad although t-mobile I think is better. Does sprint really control much frequency in PR? Does t-mobile control more?

 

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I left Sprint over a year ago to t-mobile. Has there been much improvement in Sprint since then? I'm sort of tempted to come back but my impression of t-mobile is that the coverage is not bad. Anybody that has had both have any thoughts?

 

 

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Does anybody know what spectrum sprint actually controls in Puerto Rico?

So why is sprint bringing a higher frequency even though they're still using the same LTE technology for?

If you have a good signal you don't need to sit in the lower frequencies. You can use the higher ones until your signal degrades and then move you to lower while you need it, building, elevator etc. There is nothing wrong or bad with the higher frequencies. Ideally your provider offers a mix and can move users on the fly based on signal strength.

 

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